Monday, March 08, 2010

Most Transparent President Ever Has Bar Records Redacted This Week, Leaving Only Traces of His Existence Some Betamax Videos and a Fraternity Pin

President Obama's Occidental College transcripts have never been released. His Columbia transcripts are, likewise, AWOL. And his Harvard Law transcripts also haven't been made public. Finally, it's reported, he never published any articles while at Harvard, yet somehow served as Editor of Law Review. That would make him unique among editors, according to insiders.

Even John "D Student" Kerry was guilt-tripped into releasing his transcripts.

Also Related: Q&A with a former Editor of Law Review at one of the top schools in the country.

Question: Have you ever heard of someone who became editor of law review without publishing a paper (like our beloved 44th president)?

Answer: The answer to your last question is no. Most, if not all law reviews, publish notes or articles from second-year law students who are members of the Law Review. The editors are third years. It's hard to imagine that a third year would be elected editor in chief without having previously published an article. If a third year isn't a good enough writer to have an article published in the law review, he or she probably isn't good enough to edit someone else's article.

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He was elected "president" of the Harvard Law Review, not "editor." It appears that it may have been based more on popularity (with a bit of affirmative action) than any particular talent for publishing.

"In 1994, freshly out of Harvard Law School, he joined two other attorneys in filing a lawsuit against Citibank, the giant mortgage lender. In Selma S. Buycks-Roberson v. Citibank, the plaintiffs claimed that although they had ostensibly been denied home loans "because of delinquent credit obligations and adverse credit," the real culprit was institutional racism. The suit alleged that Citibank had violated the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, the Fair Housing Act and, for good measure, the 13th Constitutional Amendment, which abolished slavery. The bank denied the charge, but after four years of legal wrangling and mounting legal bills, elected to settle. According to court documents, the three plaintiffs received a total of $60,000. Their lawyers received $950,000."

So he not only legislated that banks make bad loans, he sued to force them to make bad loans--the failure to do so being the moral and legal equivalent of slavery. And got rich doing it.

In this article that is referenced:http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/06/us/first-black-elected-to-head-harvard-s-law-review.html?pagewanted=1Note paragraph 3. There is a quote ''It's encouraging. without the closing quote. It looks like something else was written there originally and then removed by the NYTimes.

It would be easy to check if Obama were editor of the Law Review. Just look at the inside cover of any of the Law Reviews that were published during his tenure. The first thing you see on the inside of the publication is who the Editor in Chief is. This is true of all law school law review publications. Just go to your nearest law library and look for it. All law libraries have the Harvard Law Review, its the most prestigious in the country.